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Rat Girl

By Patricia Q. Bidar

She calls herself Rat Girl, but she looks like a little Swiss doll. Now in the Chapel, she is singing…

SINFUL TANGO

By Julián Esteban Torres López

Like a toddler lost in a laundry basket full of dirty towels, the Argentine music dances. Cuts through the candlelit…

Crafting From Beyond

By mandira pattnaik

Here’s something I want to confess: I’ve stopped trying. A curvier-beaked whale dies with a lump of plastic in its…

A Diptych at the Seaside

By Dipika Mukherjee

1. She collects seashells, three in a row. One domed, a Buddhist stupa; another hugs the ground, an earthworm after…

Mary the Obscure

By Mandana Chaffa

The Marys—mothers, daughters, whores, saints, queens and killers—meet every Thursday afternoon in Riverside Park during the spring and summer months.…

The Rookery

By Corey Farrenkopf

The rookery is disguised as a shed. I keep a lawnmower and a pair of hedge trimmers for the sake…

Fig

By Rachel Lachmansingh

For breakfast, Zip and I will eat a rancid jar of olives, a brittle feather from the windowsill, and a…

Fractured Lit 2021 Micro Contest Winners and Shortlist

By Fractured Lit
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Huge thank you to judge Matthew Salesses for reading and choosing the winners. This was definitely one of our most…

Everything Will Be Okay in the End

By Lindy Biller

The ghosts have come looking for my maid, but the maid is not here. The maid is out back in…

Self-Portrait as Everything You’re Not

By Jasmine Sawers

Blonde girls at school seek to become blonder. Blonde girls arrive with new highlights, preening at the way their faces…

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